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Voting Table of Contents:
- Check your registration status
- Register if not already registered.
- Voters Guides to help you know the politicians seeking office.
- Vote wisely with knowledge.
- Washington Abortion Death Laws
- Washington Assisted Suicide
Check your registration information
States try to keep their voter registration lists as accurate as possible. This means:
- Removing registrations of voters who are no longer residents
- Marking some registrations as inactive
You may be marked inactive if you:
- Do not respond to election officials’ postcards or letters and
- Have not voted in the last two federal general elections (a midterm and a presidential election)
If your registration is inactive, you may have to take extra steps before you can vote. If you do not, you may have to cast a provisional ballot.
Checking and updating (as needed) your registration ahead of time ensures:
- Your name, address, and party affiliation are up-to-date.
- You have time to make any necessary changes if your registration is marked inactive.
- You can vote.
- You know your correct polling place.
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Basic info on registering to vote in Washington State including how to check your voter registration status.
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Check your voter registration online to confirm your voter registration number and if you are still registered. Verify your name, address, political party, and polling place.
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Register if not already registered.
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Vote wisely with knowledge.
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Voters Guides to help you know the politicians seeking office.
Voting Guides
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Select voting links from the list:
Note: This links list work is still in progress.
Did you ever wonder about Death Laws in Washington?
Does the "health" of a pregnant mother seeking an abortion include any sort of distress that person might experience at any time prior to the actual birthing of the unborn child?
Does RCW 9.02.050 implicitly make the mother of a chemically aborted baby guilty of a gross misdemeanor if she disposes the aborted baby's body?
Abortion Rights in Washington Department of Health state of Washington
- RCW 9.02
- Abortions are legal up to the point of fetal viability (as determined by a provider) or to protect the life or health of the pregnant individual.
- No waiting periods are required to access an abortion.
- People of any age have the right to independently consent for their own abortion care – parental involvement is not required.
- You do not have to be a state resident nor a citizen of the United States to get abortion services here.
- A physician (MD), osteopathic physician (DO), physician assistant (PA), advanced registered nurse practitioner (ARNP), or certified nurse midwife (CNM) trained in abortion care may provide an abortion.
- State-regulated health insurance plans that cover maternity services must also cover abortion services.
- Public hospitals that provide maternity benefits, services, or information must also provide substantially equivalent abortion benefits, services, and information.
- The state funds abortion care for clients with health plans through Providence Health, which invokes a religious objection to covering abortion services. See our Increasing Access to Reproductive Choice page for specifics on how to obtain this coverage.
Did you ever wonder about Assisted Suicide Laws in Washington?
There are 46 clinics that provide abortions in Washington. The Department of Health helps fund six agencies that have 34 of those clinics.
The Washington Death with Dignity Act, Initiative 1000, passed on November 4, 2008, and went into effect on March 5, 2009. This Act allows some terminally ill patients to request and use lethal doses of medication from qualified medical providers as part of their end-of-life care. A terminally ill patient must be eligible to use the Death with Dignity end-of-life care:
Death with Dignity Act (Assisted suicide) Department of Health state of Washington
- RCW 70.245
- 18 years of age or older
- Can make and communicate an informed decision to health care providers
- Diagnosed with an incurable and irreversible disease that will produce death within six months
- Washington resident
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